'Ground' Beef

Parsing Obama's Iraq policy.

"Obama Considering Boots on the Ground in Iraq," read the NationalJournal.com headline yesterday. That was quick. Just six days earlier, the president promised: "As Commander-in-Chief, I will not allow the United States to be dragged into fighting another war in Iraq. . . . American combat troops will not be returning to fight in Iraq."

"The distinction here," NJ's Sarah Mimms and Matt Berman explain, "is that these would not be combat troops, as much as ground forces with the specific...